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Critique
A knife-fight in a phone booth
Standpoint Magazine
Critique
In search of ‘English Proust’
Can the Recherche be adapted and remain Proust? And should it really be seen as therapy?
Standpoint Magazine
Critique
Dread, time and the pandemic
Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown
John Lippitt
Critique
Editor’s Picks
Wittgenstein’s self-isolation
“Complete solitude” in a remote Norwegian village led to the most productive time of his life
Ray Monk
Critique
The healing power of birdsong
The ornithologist W.H. Hudson sought wilderness in the city. It is as if he was writing for us today
Jason Wilson
Critique
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”
Ursula Buchan
Critique
Frayed cassocks
A book by Coleridge published in 1830 offers useful advice for perplexed Anglicans today
Peter Mullen
Critique
Internal adventures
Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary
Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Critique
Only the movies have kept the faith
Jonathan Gaisman
Critique
Clubland battle of the bookmen
When a gossip columnist criticised Thackeray, Dickens weighed in to savage his rival
Barry Turner
Critique
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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